Are We Making Consciousness Anthropomorphic?

"How can we be sure we’re not anthropomorphising, attributing to all reality the defining characteristic of one small portion of it? If life on earth was obliterated, what would become of the assumption that consciousness is all there is? Rupert says: ‘That’s not an assumption – it’s your experience. What’s an assumption is that consciousness is secondary and there’s something other than it. It’s not an assumption that consciousness is primary and all there is – it’s your experience. There are no galaxies in reality. Galaxies are what reality looks like from a localised point of view. Time and space are not inherent in reality – they’re just how reality appears to a human mind. We use human words like awareness, being, consciousness, knowing – obviously they’re human words, but they don’t refer to something exclusively human. They refer to that which is aware in all experience. Consciousness is not a human faculty – it’s that in which all apparently human faculties appear.’"

From event 05 - 12 October, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Garrison Institute, 5–12 October 2025

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